Background
Armar Lowry-Corry (the second son of Armar Lowry-Corry, 3rd Earl Belmore).
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Earl Belmore
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He was educated at Lancing College in Sussex and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in Berkshire.
Career
He fought in the Second World War and was wounded in action and later gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Major Lowry-Corry was serving with the Inniskillings in Malaya in 1949 when his commanding officer handed him a telegram addressed ‘Lord Belmore’. He took immediate leave and returned to Ireland.
Lord Belmore held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh.
During his time at the house was modernised, with electricity being installed and parts of the house open to the public by 1955. Seventy acres of land were also transferred to the National Trust while commercial woods were planted on the estate and a golf course was opened.
John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore
Lady Anthea Geraldine Lowry-Corry (b 16 February 1942), who was married on 24 April 1965 to Patrick Mathew Desmond Forde Doctor of Laws, of Seaforde, County Down, son of Lieutenant Colonel Desmond Forde Doctor of Laws and the Honorary Margaret Ward (daughter of Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor), and has issue.
Lady Sarah Lilian Lowry-Corry (b 31 March 1945), who was married to Gary McNulty in 1979 and has issue.
